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Presentations (Linguistics)
Items in this Collection
- 3acoustics
- 3phonetics
- 1acoustic phonetics
- 1acoutic phonetics
- 1automatic speech recognition
- 1forced alignment
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2017-01-01
The overlap of vowel categories is a fairly common linguistic phenomenon. But, it can be difficult to judge whether two supposedly distinct vowel categories have merged or not. One tool that a researcher may use is a quantification of the overlap based on acoustic properties of recorded vowel...
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2021-12-03
Matthew C. Kelley, Scott James Perry, Benjamin V. Tucker
Forced alignment is increasingly used in phonetics to automatically produce boundaries between words and phones. These boundaries can have significant errors and are often only placed at some predetermined time interval, like every 10 ms. We discuss some potential remedies to these difficulties...
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2019-12-04
Matthew C. Kelley, Daniel Aalto
The present study uses a measure of the dispersion of density throughout the vowel space—called the vowel dispersion index—to assess speech patterns in head-and-neck cancer patients. The vowel dispersion index is based on calculating the total variation of the density values in Story and Bunton’s...